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Reflecting on the Cologne attacks one month on : Comments

By Petra Bueskens, published 2/2/2016

Feminists are in a conundrum with the Cologne attacks: speak out and align with racism or be silent and align with complicity.

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I suppose we should be grateful feminists noticed at all. I've been turned off from the political left since Rotherham, which, to me, seems an even worse example of where unchecked political correctness leads. It is very noticeable that Rotherham didn't get a mention at all in this article.
Posted by SilverInCanberra, Tuesday, 2 February 2016 11:03:53 AM
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Suse,

I suppose we should be grateful that at least somebody who purports to be an ex-feminist is willing to make any sort of comment about their sisters being assaulted in Germany and elsewhere in Europe. Otherwise it would be mainly blokes who are angry about it and want more done to defend women from sexism, wouldn't it ? Strange: that men make the best feminists.

".... these feminists .... don't care at all about all these poor women who were victims of assault because they were perpetrated by Muslim dark-skinned men rather than their hated white men."

Well, is that so ? Would you turn a blind eye to rapes and fingerings by 'Muslim dark-skinned men' but - quite rightly - not to rapes and fingerings done by white men ? Yes, crude, but how crude does one have to get before ex-feminists stand up for their sisters ?

Suse, it's wrong. It's wrong, whoever the hell does it. It's a vile thing to do. Have the courage and the willingness to stand up for your sisters (is that only our jobs, us blokes?) and say so. Say, "It's wrong."

No ? Well, let's have a minute's silence for genuine feminism.

Richard Dawkins used the word 'pusillanimous' to describe the gutlessness of the remnants of the former feminist movement over these incidents. I've tended to associated that word with women's activities in the fifties, 'women who just wanted to be women', remember ? Women's Weekly women of the Menzies era ? So now, the ex-feminists have got what they want, they can now join their Menzies-era sisters ?

No, five minutes' silence, for something that may never come again.

Joe
Posted by Loudmouth, Tuesday, 2 February 2016 11:12:44 AM
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" Secularism, Feminism and Islam are very closely aligned"
Runner I general laugh at your silly comments but that one would have to be the funniest for some time. Islam is closely aligned with the two other Abrahamic religions.

Deuteronomy 17
If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the LORD thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God, in transgressing his covenant; 17:3 And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded; 17:4 And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and enquired diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel; 17:5 Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man or that woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die.
Posted by Cobber the hound, Tuesday, 2 February 2016 11:27:02 AM
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Hi Cobber,

Yes, we should condemn philosophies that are primitive, thousands of years old, that penalise women, when we should be championing the principle that men and women are equal in all aspects of law and thereby equally entitled to be free from fear and violent assault.

So what's your take on hundreds of women being abused by Muslims in Koln ? Not three thousand years ago, but just a month ago ?

Or will you keep digging for some traces of such vile treatment in out-dated and irrelevant sources, as long as they're non-Muslim ?

Just by the way: 'Islamophobia' strictly means 'fear of Islam'. Do you reckon German women now have any grounds for having 'fear of Islam' ? Or are those five hundred women over-doing it ? Should they just put up with 'different cultures' because, after all, all cultures are equal ?

Gutless.

Joe
Posted by Loudmouth, Tuesday, 2 February 2016 11:42:22 AM
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Suse

It certainly is part feminist Angela Merkel's fault. She's Germany's boss and is Germany's main advocate of rush immigration http://www.cnbc.com/2016/01/12/merkel-under-pressure-within-cdu-as-cologne-police-detail-assaults.html

I wonder if our own Sarah Hanson Young would dare see conflicts between her unregulated immigration cause and safety of unescorted women?
Posted by plantagenet, Tuesday, 2 February 2016 11:42:44 AM
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How come Sarah Hanson Young has said nothing at all so far on this topic? Or was that the pig suse just saw flying by the window?
Posted by Cody, Tuesday, 2 February 2016 12:39:08 PM
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